Draft Coverage on the 21st?

[SkateZilla]

Anyone Know if it will be on TV or Do I Have to Sit on NHL.com

[JD]

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that would be sweet if it was a re-entry draft.

all teams had the same ammount of $ and each team had an empty roster oh yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

[Jayhawk]

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I'd bet if you could pick up CBC you'd get it.

[generalmills]

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The big 3 Canadian sports networks are all covering it live. Not sure about ESPN though.

[David Deboudt]

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What's with the '21st', do you mean the 21st of July? They haven't ratified the new CBA yet. Draft dates haven't been set in stone yet... my understanding is that the lottery will take place a week from now and the actual draft in early August.

[Philagape]

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NHL.com says they'll stream it live at 4 p.m. Friday (the 22nd)

http://nhl.com/

[Canadian'eh!]

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I thought they said the lottery would be the 21st.... but Friday is the 22nd.... what happened?

[SkateZilla]

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lottery is to make up for 3004 Entry Class,

then the next Day is the 2005 Entry Class

[David Deboudt]

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To stop the confusion, here are the exact dates of various NHL critical events of the upcoming month:

- July 23: Buyout period begins; also begins the period to negotiate with 2003 draft picks and teams' own free agents.

- July 28: 5 p.m. EDT deadline for signing 2003 draft picks (otherwise they re-enter 2005 draft); deadline for exercising club/player options for 2005-06 season.

- July 29: 5 p.m. EDT deadline for player buyouts.

- July 30: NHL entry draft in Ottawa. Modified version with only top prospects invited and cut down from nine to seven rounds.

- July 31: 5 p.m. EDT deadline to extend qualifying offers to clubs' own free agents. Qualifying offers are needed to retain rights of restricted free agents.

- Aug. 1: Official free-agent signing season begins.

- Aug. 10: Players notify teams whether they've elected salary arbitration.

- Aug. 11: Clubs notify players whether they've elected to bring them to salary arbitration.

- Aug. 12: NHL and NHLPA schedule arbitration cases.

- Aug. 15: Qualifying offers expire automatically.

- Aug. 22-Sept. 1: Salary arbitration hearings.

[SabreEleven]

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Just heard on ESPNews that they will show the lottery tomorrow @ 3PM EST

[pyrrhonist]

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Just heard on ESPNews that they will show the lottery tomorrow @ 3PM EST

They're indeed showing it today. I took the day off today, and it's showing on the ticker at the bottom that their coverage begins at 3pm EST/12pm PST.